Word: costly
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...somewhat misleading. Several details, like the placement of the engine-exhaust outlets, have been deliberately masked. Others, including crew size and maximum payload, along with such flight characteristics as range, airspeed and cruising altitude, remain strictly classified. The Air Force does acknowledge, however, that the plane is going to cost more than projected. The fleet of 132 bombers, originally priced at $36.6 billion, could cost twice as much by the time it is airborne in the 1990s...
...variety of issues to which she is devoted. She has been effective in fighting for the homeless, serving as co-chair of the Governor's Advisory Committee on the Homeless. She and her staff are credited with devising a plan for the state and charitable organizations to share the cost of maintaining shelters. Seven years ago, she organized a task force on Cambodian refugee children in Thailand, and she has led two tours of refugee camps there and helped to bring orphaned children...
Gorbachev has good reason to protect his flanks as the June 28 party conference approaches. Perestroika has drawn criticism ever since he announced it in the spring of 1985. Earlier this year, overt opposition intensified as the economic reforms began to be implemented and his principle of khozraschet, or cost accounting, started affecting an estimated 60% of Soviet industry. Many government bureaucrats have seen a threat to their extra privileges -- special housing, schools and food stores. Automatic bonuses for workers were threatened, which prompted protest strikes. Nationalist outbursts in the Baltic states, protest demonstrations by Crimean Tatars in Moscow...
College administrators are not entirely sure that all the courting and hustle are worth the considerable time and expense (Bowdoin's weekend wooing of 34 minority students cost $19,800). Still, none are willing to cut back unless their competitors do. And even when the sales pitch is persuasive, educators wonder if the customer has been well served. "I get concerned that all the marketing is taking the place of good counseling and exploiting people who haven't reached a real maturity level," says Frank Burtnett, executive director of the National Association of College Admission Counselors in Alexandria...
...Force's giant C-5A cargo plane. The engine was the first to use a high- bypass technique in which a fan, working like a turbocharger in an automobile, pushes large quantities of air past the combustion core to produce much greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with its JT9D on the giant Boeing 747. GE has boosted production of its most powerful version, the CF6-80C2, from 110 engines in 1987 to 260 this year to meet a backlog of nearly 500 orders...